Updates on the Emanuela Orlandi case 20 October 2024 10:10
Pietro Orlandi returned to talk about the ‘English track’ during yesterday’s episode of ‘La Confessione’ by Peter Gomez on Rai Tre. Emanuela Orlandi would have been taken to London aboard a secret service plane.
The London track: it is the most credible, second Pietro Orlandi. It doesn’t explain the reasons why Emanuela Orlandi she disappeared on June 22, 1983, but describes the years following the alleged kidnapping.
Pietro Orlandi’s reconstruction, carried out during yesterday’s episode of ‘The Confession’ Of Peter Gomez are Rai Trestarts from the testimony of Sabrina Minardithe lover of Enrico De Pedis, ‘Renatino’boss of the Magliana gang. The only credible part of that story, according to Orlandi, is the story of Emanuela’s return, which took place in August 1983 in a petrol station square next to the Vatican walls. A monsignor arrived in a black sedan to pick her up.
Emanuela Orlandi and the London runway
“The person being blackmailed, whoever he was, had accepted the blackmailer’s requests. But at that point the Vatican could not return her to her family, because Emanuela could be the living witness of what had happened. And for this reason it was decided to move her to a of the Vatican outside Italy”said Pietro Orlandi.
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They talk about the English track “five sheets” disclosed in 2017 with the investigation by journalist Emiliano Fittipaldi. The documents, branded as fake by the Vatican, certainly come from a safe of the Holy See. The document is a “Summary report of the expenses incurred by the Vatican City State for activities relating to the citizen Emanuela Orlandi (Rome 14 January 1968)”. In those sheets reference is made to Emanuela Orlandi’s transfer to a women’s hostel in London.
Emauela Orlandi’s alleged jailer
Pietro Orlandi spoke again about Vittorio Baioni, former member of the Nar, alleged jailer of Emanuela Orlandi in London. “He provided me with many documents, but they told me they were fake. The only thing they didn’t say anything about was the necklace”. Baioni, in fact, would also have shown a photo depicting a hand holding a necklace with the colors of Roma. An object that according to Pietro certainly belonged to Emanuela.
The mysterious secret service flight to London
But another trace of the girl’s possible presence in London is represented by the testimony of a man, who at the time worked at the Ministry of Defense and on whom the investigators are now focusing: “This person – said Pietro Orlandi – said that Emauela left Rome in the summer of 1983 on board a plane. She is a person who worked at the Ministry of Defence, she was part of the private secretariat of Spadolini, who became minister on 4 August”.
“He told me – continues Orlandi – that in August Cardinal Piovanelli showed up on behalf of the Vatican and requested a CAI flight, a secret service flight, from Rome to London, with a night departure in August ’83 from Ciampino airport. Four people on board, two men and two women, with only the pilot and co-pilot. The coincidences are too many: the period, the closeness that Spadolini had with the Vatican, he was a friend of John Paul II. This person told me which from the way they talked about it, it wasn’t the first time that the Vatican had used flights of this type.”